Our Donors

Corporate, foundation and organization supporters

Many thanks to these generous supporters of City Lights! Here’s a partial list.

Additional support comes from these friends of City Lights:
The Hugh Stuart Center Charitable Trust
Kieve Foundation

Individual Donors

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The Inspiration Circle ($75,000+)

City Of San Jose, Office Cultural Affairs
Nancy B. Coleman and Paul M. Resch
The David & Lucile Packard Foundation
The William And Flora Hewlett Foundation

The Trailblazers ($50,000+)

Urban Community
State of California Nonprofit Performing Arts Grant Program

The Groundbreakers ($25,000+)

Armanino LLP
The Shubert Foundation

The Innovators ($10,000+)

Applied Materials Foundation
Constance & Paul Boulay
Google Matching Gifts
Jonathan Karpf and Kathleen Zaretsky*
Christy Martin & Cindy Melter
Charlie McCollum
Silicon Valley Creates

The Game Changers ($5,000+)

Adobe Employee Matching Program
Cheryl Booton and Bob Mannell
Lauren Doyle
Richard & Peggy James
Kate & Tim Leehane
Sandra Moll and Rick Holden
Clint Moore
Rotary Club of San Jose
Michelle Singh
Mary Lou Torre and Richard Hagan
Geri Weimers

The Movers & Shakers ($2,500+)

Rick & Violet Boyle, in honor of Lisa Mallette
Kuechler-Montes De Oca Family Fund, an advised fund of Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Matt & Samantha Resch
San Jose Water Company
Suzanne Wittrig and Alfonso Banuelos

The Engagers ($1000+)

Niall Adler
Deb and Paul Anderson
Marv & Bonnie Bamburg
Barry Swenson Builder
Martha C. Beattie
Tom and Larel Bondi
Kristin Brownstone
The Bury Allessandri Family Charitable Fund
Dave & Jeff Chandler
Steven & Karin Chase
Sarah Clish*
Sandi & Richard Conniff
Dianne Daly, in memory of John G. Daly
The Joel Dean Foundation
Karen DeHart
Pat Diamond, in memory of Robert Diamond
Kevin and Noelle GM Gibbs
Phil and Diane Griego, in honor of Carl Cookson
Benjamin Hemmen
Cayce Hill & Joe Zullo
Anonymous
The Ironman Foundation
Eric Jacobsen
The Kieve Foundation (in memory of Carl Cookson)
Ken Krechmer & Elaine Baskin
Nicole Letellier
Aaron Loeb & Kathy Roberts
Scott Mangelson & Heidi Tucker
Gary & Debbi Maxwell
Lyle Merithew and Sandy Swirsky
Gillian Moran
Ross Nelson*
Molly & James Olivas
Daniel Pappone
Maryellen Petrich*
Larry & Carmen Stone
Anita Kapadia and Feroze Taraporevala
Target Circle Giving Program
David Taylor
TheatreDNA
The Thermond Philanthropy Fund
Carol & Dan Turner*
Nancy Wheeler
XL Construction

The Dreamers ($500+)

Linda Anderson
Apple Matching Gifts Fund
Rachel & Tom Bakker
Nancy & Clayton Bavor
Dena Behnam
Susan Benjamin
Jason and Laura Bennert
Noel Butler, in memory of Phil Kurjan
Alyssa Byrkit
Gary & Janice Cherrier
Rosalee and Bob Clarke*
Mary P. Curtis & Michael Miller
Jane Decker
Chris del Pilar
Ivette Deltoro
Virginia Drake
Jerald Enos
William Ereneta*
Sandra & Clayton Feldman
Martin & Barbara Fishman
Dan Flynn
Carol Garvey
Bert George
John Gilbert
The Goldman/Singer Family Fund
Google Corporation
Kenneth Gott
Marcie Gugenheim
Jane Hiatt
Angie Higgins & Tom Shamrell
Dan Hill
Gary Hubbard
The Hunter-Garcia Family Donor Advised Fund
Intel Matching Gifts
Keith Garvey Good Democrat Foundation
Cathy & Kevin Kimball
James Kleinrath & Melody Singleton
Janikke Klem & Leon Glover
Johnny & Katie Kolasinski
Terry & Bill Krivan
Jan & Sofia M. Laskowski
Amoreena Lucero*
Cliff Maas
Judith Marlin
Marc & Laura McGeever
Christine Mengarelli and Dale Elliott
Jason Molenda
Douglas and Julia Moore
Barbara Murray*
Vivian and Kevin O’Connell
Peralta Painting
Phil Kurjan Fund, a donor advised fund
Cheryl Pittenger, in honor of Christy Martin
Joanna Rauh
Glenn Reed
Barbara Reynolds
Michael Rhone
Joyce & Campbell Scott
Sempra Engery Matching Fund
Ellen and Bryan Shaner*
Susan Zaslaw and Martin Liss*

The Doers ($250+)

Amalia and John Alban
Amazon Smile Program
Ameriprise Employee Giving Program
Nanci Amolsch & Brian Buhrow
Cheryl Barker
Jan & Mike Bergkamp
Janice Berling
Kirsten Brandt
Darryl and Carolyn Compton
Pat and Chuck Corr
Meghan & Tyler Crosby-Jolliffe
Kristi & Ed DaSilva
Jerry Di Salvo
Ramon & Jennifer Diaz-Arrastia
Pamela Dougherty
Karen English
Sean Fenton
Derek Foster
Barbara Fraser
Ron Gasparinetti & Steve Cortopassi
Tom Gough and Luisa Sermol
John and Barbara Harriman
Nicole Hawkins
Rose & John Henderson
Jennifer & Luke Hohmann
Sandra Krakowski
William Lakatos
Sue Ann Lorig
Tom MacRostie
Margie Matthews
Walter Mayes
Judith Miller
Bart Perry
Karen Altree Piemme
Amy and Sal Pizarro
Raegena Raymond-Brunker & Kris Brunker
Sara Morris & Mason Razavi
James Reber
April Durrett & Matthew Reilly
The Eddie Reynolds & Hernan Correa Family Fund, an advised fund of Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Sherri R. Sager
AJ Eiserloh & Emily Schwing
ServiceNow
James Towery and Karyn Sinunu-Towery
Christopher Slater
Don and Barbara Snyder
Alison Steel
John & Amanda Straigis
The Swink Family
Farran Tabrizi
Victoria Taketa
Susan Tatro
Donna Terman & William Brown
Jon Tracy
Patricia Tyler & Ben Marks, in honor of Todd Wright
Kevin Ung
Shahani Markus & Graeme Warren
Cathy & Randy Warshawsky
Maggie Wilde
Paul and Anne Younan

The Believers ($100+)

Kerry Adams-Hapner
Richard Ajluni
Dale Albright
Robert B. Ames
Adonna Amoroso
Chloe Angst
Rosalie Arntzen
Thomas Becker
Iris Berke
Steve and Marcia Block
Susan Rabin Buchanan and Dave Buchanan
Erica & Glenn Bulycz
Barbara Canup
Lou Caputo & Rose Eufinger Charitable Trust
John & Agnes Caulfield
Anna Chase
Maureen Clark
Steve & Suzanne Cowan
Trami Cron
Elsa Cumpton
Bill and Alicia Davidovich
Jill Davis
George & Debra Doeltz
Janice Dong
Steve Ellenberg
Lynne Ennis
Vikki Essert
Barb Fallon
Jennifer Flick
Laura Foegal
Janice Frazier & Dan Dawson
Tara Ferguson
RoseAnn Gasparinetti
Steven & Dawn Gerdt
Sophie Giles
Peggy Ginsburg
Barbara Goldstein*, in honor of Lisa Mallette
The Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation
Alice Gosak Gary
Amy Gregor
Lyn Hackett
Mike Hale
Matthew & Elizabeth Hall
Leslee Hamilton, in honor of Lisa Mallette
Judith Hammerschmidt
Gary Harris
Susan Hayes
Denise & Jim Heick
Genelle Heim
David Heine & Chrisula Bloore
Laura Henderson and Jason Silva
Brian and Jocelyn Herndon
Will Huddleston
Russell Johnson
Julia Jones
Gus Kambeitz & Nineteen
Kathleen Kawakami
Pam Kelly
Joel Key
KKR
Nancy Klein
Chelsea Knoblauch
Harvey & Perla Kohs, in memory of Rose Kohs
Jon Kull
Mary Lazaga
Dirk Leatherman
Dane K. Lentz
George J. Leonard
Josie LeRoy
Colleen & Brian Lewis
Jim & Christina Martin
Linda & Ronald Martin
Susan & Charles Martin
Heather McBeath
Derek McCaw
Bill McCraw & Janet Muscio
Hugh & Deborah McDevitt, a donor advised fund
Shareen Merriam
Lisa K. Miller
E Mireault
Michael Mitnick, in honor of Lisa Mallette
Heidi Morgan & David Sandhu, in honor of Team EBSI
Steven Nakano
Lucretia Nelson
Neil & Phyllis Newman
Richard Newton
Michael K. Norris
William O’Daly
Andrew Oliver
Victoria Ortiz
Jamie Palasky
Caitlin Papp
Bruce Parsons
Pintuna Inc.
Amy Powers
DeAnna & Sridhar Pursai
Deborah & Michael Regalbuto
Jorge L. Reyes
Ken & Margaret Schieck
Tom & Carol Shall, in honor of Christy Martin
Joe Singer*
Janet Smick
Andrew Smith
Harold & Linda Spencer
Dave & RuthE Stein
Laura Sternberg
Cathy Stonie
Christina Sturken
Susan Suffel
Lynn Telford
Anne Marie Todd
Patricia Toft
Victoria Tran Sood
Holly Weber
Nancy & Bob Weeks
Amanda Williams
James Williams
Roxanne Worlock
Ken Yeager
David & Julie Yick-Koppel

*Sustained Giving Program
Those donors marked with an asterisk (*) are members of City Lights’ Sustained Giving Program, and have their donations charged automatically each month to provide invaluable, ongoing support throughout the year.